LAB SCHEDULING The laboratory will operate on a semi-open lab policy. That is - lab
work is possible at times other than and including the officially scheduled lab period. As
you all have had 2+ years of training in Chemistry, it is expected that you can work
safely with a minimum of supervision.

Mondays 2 pm - 5 pm

Laboratory will be open for inspection of equipment and instruments. Use this time to
plan your procedure and be sure you understand the instrument operating instructions.
There will be NO experimentation during this period.

Tuesdays 1 pm - 5 pm

Regular Lab Period.

Thursdays 1 pm - 5 pm

Open lab period. Use this time to complete any lab work not finished
on Tuesday. This may also be considered a make-up period if Tuesday lab is missed. Please
note that the teaching assistant will not always be available to supervise, so
arrangements for any substantial experimentation during this period must be made with the
teaching assistant in advance.

You will be challenged to complete the experiments within a single lab period. Please
be prepared to make liberal use of the additional lab time.

EXPERIMENTS

I

UV-Visible spectrometry (Handout)

II

Fluorescense Spec. II (Emission decay)

III

FTIR Spectroscopy

IV

UV - Spectrum deconvolution

V

Capillary GC/ Temperature Programming (Handout)

VI

GC - Linear Free Energy Relationships (Handout)

VII

GC/MS (Handout)

VIII

Head-Space (tentative)

IX

HPLC Troubleshooting, basic parameters

X

HPLC Qualitative Analysis/Gradient (Handout)

XI

HPLC pH/Column Selection

XII

HPLC Quantitation (effect of parameter varioations)

Lab Schedule

Class will be splitted in three groups, and each group will follow the
schedule below.

Jan.15

Jan.22

Jan.29

Feb.5

Feb.12

Feb.26

Mar.5

Mar.12

Mar.19

Apr.2

Apr.9

Apr.16

Apr.23

Apr.30

Spectroscopy

GC

HPLC

Group.1

Intro

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

Make Up

Group 2

Intro

II

I

IV

III

VI

V

VIII

VII

X

IX

XII

XI

Make Up

Laboratories will be performed on a rotating schedule with the class divided into three
groups. Three experiments will run concurrently each week.

It is unavoidable that the lecture and laboratory will not move at the same pace, nor
cover subjects in the same order. It is therefore imperative that you act as a student and
learn as much as you can about each experiment through reading BEFORE you come to the lab.
Be sure to read the appropriate chapters in the lecture text and the lab description
before performing an experiment an experiment.